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TO 'ALL'WHOM IT MAY CONCERNz" Be it known that'I, JONATHAN WIiI'rn'nY, of Fort Winnebago, in the county of Columbia, and'State of Wis consin, haveflinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Hop-Dricrs; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,freferencc being had to4 the accompanying drawings, making partof this specification, andto the letters of reference marked thcreon, like letters indicatinglike 'parts wherever they occur.

To enable others skilled in' the art to construct and use'my invention, 'I will proceed to describe it. My invention'relates to houses or kilns for drying hops,`and consists' in certain new and useful improve. ments in the arrangeme'nts of the interior of hop-dryinghouses, Aby which all waste of the lupuline, Seeds, and

t other matter ,usually lost by the usual method of drying hops, is avoidcd. In the drawings- Tn'igure 2 is a cross vertical section.

Figure 3is a view in perspective of the frame B, detached and inverted. I The old or usual method of dryinghops is to place them on a floor-cloth of open texture, supported by open slats, or any 'other suitable manner. The fioor-cloth is placed'in astationary position in the kiln, .and directly o'verfithe' heating-apparatus. When thelhops are'suiiiciently dried, they are removed by raking, shovelling, and sweeping,'or in some other' similarmanner. Butwhen treated in this rough way, the hops are very much broken, and the lupuline and seeds 'are almost entirely wasted and lost. I

bThe ,object .of my-invention is to avoid this waste and loss by doing away with the necessity of raking, shovelling, or sweeping the hops. from the drying-fioors now in use, or similar ones. i I construet 'my hopedrier in the form of a house of any desired size or shape, or it may consist of two rooms in any house,'barn,' or shed suitable for the purpose. In the drawings I have represented it in the form of-a house, K, as shown in fig. 1. This house I'divide into two rooms, E F, by a partition, G. Room E, I use as the V Figure 1 is a perspective view, with a portion broken away, so as to show-the internal-arrangement.

. kiln or dry-room, and the room F'for' the store-room. Within the kiln or dry-room E, an'd at asuitable distance from the floor, I place a curbed frame, B, large enough to filli'or'surround the interior of the room, and haviiig a curb entirely around it, as shown-in all the figu'res. In the bottom of this 'frame B, I place a floor-frame, A,

provided with iloor-cloth '5, as shown in fig. 3. The floor-franie `A, I divide, when desired, into'two or more sectiens, and provide each section with afloor-cloth. In the drawings, the floor-frame A is divided into two sections.

The il`oor4frumes ,of each'sectionare supported by the joists or beams C, which are firmly attached to the frame B,

which, with its curb,`surrounds both sections, and are supported in such'a way that they may be turned on their supports, as shown in r ed lines in fig. 2, either by being hinged or connected in any other manner suitable for the purpose. The sides of the floor-frames A, I make'with edges provided for lapping, as shown in figf2, so that when horizontal, vthey'will cover the whole -of the space within the eurbcd frame B. The joists or. beams O, I provide with trucks or rollers a, which run upon the beams D, as shown in fig. 1. -Thebeams .D extend through the whole lengtliiof. both rooms E and.F,-and serve as a'track for .the frame B,Vwith its drying-floor and trueksor rollers, 4to'r'un on. Inthe partition G, I make an opening, E just large enough 'to permit the frame B to pass-through on the tracks D from one room to the other, and also so that when it (the frame B) is either in one room or the other, its curb will just'elose the open-ing, as shown in fig. 1. I The dry-room may be heated by a storm/d, or in any other suitable manner.

In operating my hop-drier, I placethc frame B within the dry-room E, 'as shown in fig. 1, 'and then place upon the floorfclotli b the hops to he dried. When they are suificiently dried, I roll 'or move-the frame along the track D into ,the store-room F, and turn the floor-frames A, as shown in fig. 2, so as to empty'thedried hops on tothe floor of the store-room F. This done, the fioor-frames A are straightened, theV frame B run baek on the track D intothe dry-room E, when hops are 'again placed in, dried, and removed as before.

Thus it will be seen by the use of my hop-drier there can be no loss or waste in removingy'the dried hops from the drying-cloths, and that everything` is securely placed'into the store-room. I

jIn operating my hop-drier, there'is no necessity for th'e operator to'labor in the drying-room with the tem.

4perature .varying from'130 to 180 Fahrenheit, forl the purpose of removing, turning, or putting on a fiooring,

as all this can be done when the frame B- is run out of the dryfroo'm.

In the ds-ewing the heating-apparatus is shown as a. stove, but-.Lit may be a furnace, a nd arranged so as to belfired withoutgoing into the dry-room at 22.11.

Heving thus described my inveution, what I claim, is- I, v

1. A hop-drier, consisting -of a. drying-room E and store-room F, and provided with a, curbed frame, B, having tilting drying-floors, mounted on a trackQD, all constructed and arfanged to operate substantially as described, and fer the purpose set forth.

Eg The aux-'sed frame B, and tilting drying-floors A, constructed and a rranged to opomte substantially as described, and foz'the purpose set forth.

' JONATHAN WHITNEY.

Witnessee:

C. 0. Bern',

0. P. WILLmMs. 

